Monday, July 26, 2021 to Sunday, August 1, 2021 Tweets Archive Recent news

The Guardian • Amanda Meade • August 1, 2021 • theguardian.com
Sky News Australia banned from YouTube for seven days over Covid misinformation
Digital giant issues strike after channel posted videos denying the existence of disease and encouraging people to use discredited medication
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The Age • Anthony Galloway • July 27, 2021 • theage.com.au
‘Wrong morally’: Official photo of Ben Roberts-Smith was altered to hide Crusader’s cross
Former special forces soldier Ben Roberts-Smith displayed a Crusader’s cross on his uniform while on duty in Afghanistan. Many Muslims find the symbol offensive.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Bevan Shields • July 30, 2021 • smh.com.au
AstraZeneca creator says Australia’s mixed messages on vaccine may cost lives
Dame Sarah Gilbert made the intervention amid a heated debate over whether the wider use of the vaccine could have prevented lockdowns in Sydney and Melbourne.
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Bevan Shields@BevanShields
Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert, the Oxford scientist who created the AstraZeneca vaccine and was given that amazing standing ovation at Wimbledon, says mixed messaging in Australia may cost lives smh.com.au/world/europe/a…
July 30, 2021
The Guardian • Sarah Martin • July 27, 2021 • theguardian.com
Major delay in Australian government’s Novavax deal, with 51m doses not expected until 2022
Initially touted as a ‘primary’ vaccine to help immunise Australia by the end of this year, Novavax will now form part of the booster strategy
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The Guardian • Sarah Martin, Katharine Murphy • July 28, 2021 • theguardian.com
Vaccine advisory group urged Australian health department in 2020 ‘to get as much as you can’
Pushback from members comes after department secretary Brendan Murphy says all government vaccine purchases ‘were on the advice of advisory group’
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Rob Harris • July 26, 2021 • smh.com.au
Federal Labor dumps negative gearing policy, backs tax cuts
Labor went to both the 2016 and 2019 elections promising to halve the 50 per cent capital gains tax deduction and limit negative gearing to new properties only.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Rob Harris • July 27, 2021 • smh.com.au
Out-and-proud diver’s words as important as his medal-winning performance
Britain’s Tom Daley is not the first gay man to compete nor win gold at the Olympics. But some moments are packed with real meaning.
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ABC News • Avani Dias, Jeanavive McGregor, Lauren Day • July 26, 2021 • abc.net.au
Lauren got TikTok for a laugh. The app would change the direction of her life
Beyond the dances and skits there's a darker side to TikTok. The app's algorithm is exposing users to dangerous content while controlling which people and political movements get attention.
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Avani Dias@AvaniDias
TikTok's algorithm gives you a personalised feed after harvesting your data. But if it decides you should see misinformation or dangerous content, it'll send you down a disturbing spiral that can affect your life.
Our @triplejHack #4Corners investigation:
abc.net.au/news/2021-07-2…
July 26, 2021
The Guardian • Christopher Knaus, Michael McGowan • July 27, 2021 • theguardian.com
Who’s behind Australia’s anti-lockdown protests? The German conspiracy group driving marches
German-based Worldwide Demonstration helped coordinate rallies across Australia, with their message amplified by local anti-vaxx and ‘freedom’ influencers
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Christopher Knaus@knausc
We took a look at the role a German-based conspiracy group - run by individuals calling themselves “Freie Bürger Kassel”, or the Free Citizens of Kassel - played in driving Saturday's antI lockdown rallies. With @mmcgowan
and @annefdavies
theguardian.com/australia-news…
July 27, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Zoe Samios • July 29, 2021 • smh.com.au
Alan Jones column pulled from The Daily Telegraph amid anti-lockdown, COVID-19 controversies
News Corp’s The Daily Telegraph has pulled a weekly column by controversial broadcaster Alan Jones.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Latika Bourke • July 28, 2021 • smh.com.au
Number of unused AstraZeneca vaccines in Australia tops 3 million
The World Health Organisation says Australia should give unwanted vaccines to countries that could use them.
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Michael Koziol@michaelkoziol
“We will look back on anti-AstraZenecism as one of the greatest public health failings in many years.” @GregDore2 via @latikambourke smh.com.au/politics/feder…
July 28, 2021
The Guardian • Daniel Hurst • July 29, 2021 • theguardian.com
‘Rigidly flexible’: Peter Dutton’s office directs department to answer media inquiries in three paragraphs
Defence minister wants responses to be ‘as brief and succinct as possible’, an email obtained under FOI reveals
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Daniel Hurst@danielhurstbne
It was 5.58pm on 5 May when an email lobbed into Department of Defence inboxes that suggested Peter Dutton was wasting no time making his mark on his new portfolio. “Guidance is to limit responses to three paras, regardless of breadth of the question(s).” theguardian.com/australia-news…
July 29, 2021
ABC News • Max Walden, Zena Chamas • July 29, 2021 • abc.net.au
Gesti tested positive for COVID a day before giving birth. Three weeks later, the virus took her life
The number of pregnant women who are dying with COVID-19 in Indonesia is anticipated to increase, as expectant mothers opt for voluntary c-sections or give birth at home out of fear they will catch the virus at the hospital.
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Max Walden@maxwalden_
25-year-old Gesti was by all accounts a dedicated doctor, mother & friend. She tested positive for COVID on July 2 and gave birth on July 3. By July 22 she had died. Her husband Sunni hopes her story is a wake up call for Indonesians on the threat of Delta abc.net.au/news/2021-07-2…
July 29, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • James Massola • August 1, 2021 • smh.com.au
‘Do not wait’ for Pfizer: New data shows just 1 per cent of Delta cases fully vaccinated
New data reveals the huge impact of the AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines, with just 1 per cent of COVID cases in the Sydney outbreak among those who were fully vaccinated.
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James Massola@jamesmassola
The difference vaccination makes: of 2702 COVID-19 cases in Sydney from June 16-July 28, just 15 were fully vaccinated. 0 in hospital, 0 in ICU, 0 deaths. Pfizer & AstraZeneca equally effective @smh @theage smh.com.au/politics/feder…
August 1, 2021
The Guardian • Daniel Hurst • July 28, 2021 • theguardian.com
US, European and UK diplomats meet to encourage Australia to ramp up climate action
Exclusive: Diplomats have had multiple meetings in Canberra to discuss ways to engage with Australia on setting stronger climate targets
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The Guardian • Sarah Martin • July 29, 2021 • theguardian.com
Just 39% of NSW residents over 70 are fully vaccinated against Covid, despite push for jabs
New South Wales is trailing much of Australia in getting the elderly vaccinated, new government figures reveal
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Sarah Martin@msmarto
Kerry Chant talking about NSW figures that show 25% of over-70s still to receive a first dose. "Vaccines will save lives, Covid will kill". Today's story on these numbers theguardian.com/australia-news…
July 29, 2021
ABC News • July 26, 2021 • abc.net.au
This is your chance to work with the ABC to tell your story about disability
Are you an aspiring storyteller with disability and want to tell your story on the ABC? We want to hear from you.
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The Saturday Paper • Rick Morton • July 31, 2021 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
The political forces inside the anti-lockdown movement
The divisions and tensions inside national cabinet mirror the political forces that are gaining strength within the anti-lockdown movement.
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Rick Morton@SquigglyRick
On July 23, as national cabinet met to deal with its most significant crisis in a year Scott Morrison periodically turned his back to the camera and literally stoked a fire in The Lodge. Many saw it as a metaphor. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/…
July 31, 2021
ABC News • Mridula Amin • August 1, 2021 • abc.net.au
These workers say they are 'blessed' to be considered essential during Sydney's lockdown
From doing deep cleans at exposure sites to picking up abandoned face masks, these are the people who say they are "blessed" to keep Sydney operating amid a COVID crisis.
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John Birmingham@JohnBirmingham
This ABC piece on Sydney’s essential workers is quite moving and worth a read on its own merits. But baby writers could also benefit from studying it. Every one of these peeps would make a great character in a novel. abc.net.au/news/2021-08-0…
August 1, 2021
The Guardian • Lorena Allam • July 27, 2021 • theguardian.com
Jailing of nearly 500 children aged 13 and under a ‘failure’ by Australia’s top legal officers, advocates say
Justice and health groups say at least 65% of the children jailed in 2020 are Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander
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June Oscar@June_Oscar
A year on since the failure of Australian governments to raise the age of criminal responsibility. I urge all governments to secure justice for our children without further delay theguardian.com/australia-news…
July 28, 2021

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